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Info2soft has launched i2BSS (Info2soft Backup Strategy Selector), an industry-first intelligent tool for backup strategy selection.
Designed to simplify backup planning for IT administrators, i2BSS takes basic input and returns a tailored, actionable protection plan in about two minutes.
i2BSS is built around a streamlined assessment process. Administrators provide two categories of information, and the tool handles the rest.
The business requirements questionnaire covers protection targets (file servers, databases, virtual machines, cloud, and Kubernetes), recovery objectives (RPO and RTO), and functional priorities such as point-in-time recovery, archiving needs, and budget considerations.
The data parameters input covers total data volume, daily change rate, deduplication ratio, backup window, and team size. From there, i2BSS calculates suggested storage requirements and backup cycles.
i2BSS brings together strategy selection, storage planning, ransomware resilience, and documentation in a single workflow.
The tool compares four backup methods — incremental, transaction log, synthetic full, and snapshot — and suggests a primary and supporting combination based on the environment.
For a typical 1TB file server with a small database, for example, i2BSS might recommend full plus incremental backup as primary, supported by transaction log backup.
i2BSS estimates expected storage consumption and proposes a tiered architecture: hot backups for 30–90 days, monthly archives, and annual offline copies, with cold data shifted to lower-cost storage where appropriate.
Each plan includes a recovery confidence score out of 100.
Protection is organized across four layers: change capture through incremental and log backups, point-in-time database recovery, immutable and offsite isolation to help guard against tampering, and ongoing validation through periodic recovery testing.
Replication and CDP can help narrow the data loss window, but they generally work best alongside, rather than in place of, isolated long-term backups.
Once the assessment is complete, i2BSS generates a planning summary covering RPO/RTO targets, backup cycles, retention rules, and storage estimates, intended to support internal reporting and planning discussions.
i2BSS is designed to make backup planning more accessible for teams without dedicated disaster recovery specialists, while supporting hybrid environments spanning physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.
Its built-in cost estimation and ransomware-resilient design aim to help organizations plan more efficiently and reduce exposure to data loss.
The tool is available now at the link below, offering IT teams a more structured starting point for backup strategy planning.
